CookingHow was at the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which is an annual, two-day event held on the UCLA campus.  Needless to say, we were drawn to the Cooking Stage, where various chefs and cookbook authors took the stage with cooking demonstrations.

Katie Lee Joel, Curtis Stone, and Jamie Purviance were just some of the special guest speakers this year at the Cooking Stage, but Giada De Laurentiis definitely drew the largest crowd by far.  Not only is she the host of several Food Network shows, including Giada at Home and [...]